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Re: Academics locked out by tight visa controls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Mon Sep 20 10:43:16 2004
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:03:57 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net,
cryptography@metzdowd.com, cyberia-l@listserv.aol.com,
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>From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
>Sent: Sep 20, 2004 8:33 AM
>Subject: Academics locked out by tight visa controls
><http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/9710963.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp>
>Posted on Mon, Sep. 20, 2004
>Academics locked out by tight visa controls
>U.S. SECURITY BLOCKS FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS
>By Bruce Schneier
...
I guess I've been surprised this issue hasn't seen a lot more discussion. It takes nothing more than to look at the names of the people doing PhDs and postdocs in any technical field to figure out that a lot of them are at least of Chinese, Indian, Arab, Iranian, Russian, etc., ancestry. And only a little more time to find out that a lot of them are not citizens, and have a lot of hassles with respect to living and working here. What do you suppose happens to the US lead in high-tech, when we *stop* drawing in some large fraction of the smartest, hardest-working thousandth of a percent of mankind?
--John
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